THIRD DAY (7th Sunday of Easter or transferred Ascension)
Thou, of all consolers best, Visiting the troubled breast, Dost refreshing peace bestow.
Special Intention
"Johanninise the souls of our priests and bishops. Please, Lord, grant a Priestly Pentecost."
The Gift of Piety
The gift of Piety begets in our hearts a filial affection for God as our most loving Father. It inspires us to love and respect for His sake persons and things consecrated to Him, as well as those who are vested with His authority, His Blessed Mother and the Saints, the Church and its visible Head, our parents and superiors, our country and its rulers. He who is filled with the gift of Piety finds the practice of his religion, not a burdensome duty, but a delightful service. Where there is love, there is no labor.
Prayer
Come, O Blessed Spirit of Piety, possess my heart. Enkindle therein such a love for God, that I may find satisfaction only in His service, and for His sake lovingly submit to all legitimate authority. Amen.
Our Father and Hail Mary ONCE. Glory be to the Father SEVEN TIMES.
ACT OF CONSECRATION TO THE HOLY SPIRIT
On my knees I before the great multitude of heavenly witnesses I offer myself, soul and body to You, Eternal Spirit of God. I adore the brightness of Your purity, the unerring keenness of Your justice, and the might of Your love. You are the Strength and Light of my soul. In You I live and move and am. I desire never to grieve You by unfaithfulness to grace and I pray with all my heart to be kept from the smallest sin against You. Mercifully guard my every thought and grant that I may always watch for Your light, and listen to Your voice, and follow Your gracious inspirations. I cling to You and give myself to You and ask You, by Your compassion to watch over me in my weakness. Holding the pierced Feet of Jesus and looking at His Five Wounds, and trusting in His Precious Blood and adoring His opened Side and stricken Heart, I implore You, Adorable Spirit, Helper of my infirmity, to keep me in Your grace that I may never sin against You. Give me grace O Holy Spirit, Spirit of the Father and the Son to say to You always and everywhere, "Speak Lord for Your servant heareth." Amen.
PRAYER FOR THE SEVEN GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
O Lord Jesus Christ Who, before ascending into heaven did promise to send the Holy Spirit to finish Your work in the souls of Your Apostles and Disciples, deign to grant the same Holy Spirit to me that He may perfect in my soul, the work of Your grace and Your love. Grant me the Spirit of Wisdom that I may despise the perishable things of this world and aspire only after the things that are eternal, the Spirit of Understanding to enlighten my mind with the light of Your divine truth, the Spirit on Counsel that I may ever choose the surest way of pleasing God and gaining heaven, the Spirit of Fortitude that I may bear my cross with You and that I may overcome with courage all the obstacles that oppose my salvation, the Spirit of Knowledge that I may know God and know myself and grow perfect in the science of the Saints, the Spirit of Piety that I may find the service of God sweet and amiable, and the Spirit of Fear that I may be filled with a loving reverence towards God and may dread in any way to displease Him. Mark me, dear Lord with the sign of Your true disciples, and animate me in all things with Your Spirit. Amen.
FR. Z AUDIO: HERE
Read about this Pentecost Novena asking God for a "Priestly Pentecost" HERE
Daily Pentecost Novena Prayers Found by (I will post the daily novena prayers here) ...
- Joining the Grace Force email list: HERE
- Going to usgraceforce.com
- Joining the Grace Force Facebook group: HERE
Sunday within the Octave of Ascension
MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS
Baruch, Chapter
6, Verse 27-28
27 Their priests sell their
sacrifices for their own advantage. Likewise, their wives cure some of the
meat, but they do not share it with the poor and the weak;
28 women ritually unclean or at
childbirth handle their sacrifices. From such things, know that they are not
gods; do not fear them.
Fear! Those who are fearful are ruled by their
emotions. What is worst to kill a
person’s body or to kill a person’s soul? When a person leads you astray
from the Lord, they indeed are killing your soul. The soul is meant to be free
to do the will of God and when the soul is busy doing the will of God, we are
indeed happy, even in abject poverty. When a soul is hampered from doing the
will of God by another or your own free will this is a form of slavery and God
is reminding us that He brought us out of the house of slavery.
To ancient cultures to stone something is to bury it
not in earth but in stone so that it will never rise again.
While
the horror of slavery is thankfully dead as an institution, it sadly lives on
in many other forms in many lives today, all around us, in ways maybe not
considered slavery by some. I hope to get you to reconsider. But let’s first
define our terms:
Slave: “One that is
totally subservient to a dominating influence.”
~ Merriam-Webster
Slavery
may be dead as a formal institution of human bondage, but it is alive and well
in the hearts and minds and lives of too many people who have the ability to loose
the shackles, but haven’t exercised the courage to do it yet.
This
Sunday is a joyous preparation for Pentecost. Because this Sunday eagerly
awaits the coming of the Holy Spirit (see the Mass proper’s), it is not
surprising that there was once a special papal ceremony to foreshadow the
Pentecost event. On this day the Pope would celebrate Mass in the church of
Santa Maria Rotonda, the former Pantheon in Rome with its large opening in the
ceiling. After his sermon, roses were thrown from the opening as a symbol of
the Paraclete's imminent arrival. From this custom comes the original name of
the Sunday: Dominica de Rosa.
Sunday within the Octave of Ascension[2]
"When. . .the Spirit of truth. . .has
come, He will bear witness concerning Me. And you also bear witness. . .The
hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering worship
to God" (Gospel).
The Apostles make the first Novena,
recommended by Christ Himself, in preparation for the coming of the Holy
Spirit. The Introit presents their Novena prayer, and ours, too.
In the background St. Stephen is shown
being stoned to death. The cross upside down, indicates how St. Peter was
crucified. We are to "bear witness" to Christ and His Church against
a world that will condemn us to death. thinking that they are
"offering worship to God" (Gospel).
A witness! Yes, interiorly, to "be
watchful in prayers;" exteriorly, by "mutual charity among
yourselves" (Epistle). For this we now offer "this. .
.sacrifice" (Secret), to "purify us' from past disloyalties and to
"strengthen" us for future testimony.
Excerpted
from My Sunday Missal, Confraternity of the Precious Blood
Goffine’s
Devout Instructions, 1896.
Sixth Sunday after Easter is Sunday
is a preparation for the feast of Pentecost. At the Introit of the Mass, the
Church sings: " Hear, O Lord, my voice, with which I have cried to Thee,
alleluia. My heart hath said to Thee, I have sought Thy face; Thy face, Lord,
will I seek; turn not away Thy face from me, alleluia, alleluia. The Lord is my
light and my salvation, whom shall, I fear?"
Prayer.
O almighty and everlasting God
grant us ever to entertain a devout affection towards Thee, and to serve Thy
majesty with a sincere heart.
EPISTLE, i. Peter
iv. 7-11.
Dearly Beloved: Be prudent, and
watch in prayers. But before all things have a constant mutual charity among
yourselves; for charity covereth a multitude of sins. Using hospitality one
towards another without murmuring. As every man hath received grace,
ministering the same to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of
God. If any man speaks, let him speak as the words of God. If any man minister,
let him do it as of the power which God administereth: that in all things God
may be honored through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Practice.
The virtues here recommended are
excellent preparatives for receiving the Holy Ghost, for nothing makes us more
worthy of His grace than temperance, prayer, charity, unity, and hospitality
towards our neighbors. Endeavor, therefore, to exercise these virtues, and
every day during the following week pray fervently to the Holy Ghost for help
in your endeavors.
GOSPEL. John xv.
26, 27; xvi. 1-4.
At
that time Jesus said to His disciples : When the Paraclete cometh Whom I will
send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, Who proceedeth from the Father,
He shall give testimony of Me: and you shall give testimony, because you are
with Me from the beginning. These things have I spoken to you, that you may not
be scandalized. They will put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh
that whosoever killeth you will think that he doth a service to God. And these
things will they do to you, because they have not known the Father nor Me. But
these things I have told you, that when the hour shall come, you may remember
that I told you.
What
kind of sin is scandal? It is a frightful sin. By it countless sins are
occasioned, thousands of souls are carried to perdition, while the loving design
of God for the salvation of men is frustrated.
How,
in general, is scandal given? By saying, doing, and neglecting to do
something which becomes the occasion of sin to another.
When
do parents give scandal? When they set a bad example to their children. When
they do not correct them for doing wrong, or neglect to keep them from what is
bad and to teach them that which is good.
How
do employers give scandal? In much the same way that parents give scandal to
their children: when, by bad example or by command, they keep their servants or
other employees from divine service, or neglect to make them attend it. When
they themselves use, or give to others, flesh-meat on days of abstinence. When
they order the commission of sin.
Events had happened in Europe only several years earlier, and this no doubt was still fresh in people's minds. Napoleon Bonaparte had jailed Pope Pius VI who died in goal, after which Pope Pius VII was elected. Just a short time later, he too was jailed by Napoleon, who kept him prisoner at Fontainebleau, 35 miles from Paris. The Holy Father vowed to God that, if he were restored, he would institute a special feast in honor of Mary. Military reverses forced Napoleon to release the Pope, and on May 24th, 1814, Pius VII returned in triumph to Rome. Twelve months later, the Pope decreed that the feast of Mary Help of Christians, be kept on the 24th of May.
Australia became the first nation in the world to have, Mary, Help of Christians as Patroness: the first church to celebrate May 24th on a national scale (elsewhere the feast was restricted to Rome and specified places); and the first country to have a mother-cathedral under the same title.
Mary Help of Christian’s patroness of Australia and of the Military
Ordinariate (Feast: 24th May)
Almighty
God deepen in our hearts our love of Mary Help of Christians. Through her
prayers and under her protection, may the light of Christ shine over our land.
May Australia be granted harmony, justice and peace. Grant wisdom to our
leaders and integrity to our citizens. Bless especially the men and women of
the Australian Defense Force and their families. We ask this through Christ Our
Lord. Amen.
Mary
Help of Christians, pray for us.
Things to Do:
·
Make
a virtual visit to the chapel of Our Lady, Help of Christians at the Basilica of the National
Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
·
Travel
via the Internet to the Shrine of Mary Help of Christians built by St. John Bosco as a
monument to the Virgin Mary, with the title Help of Christians, as the mother
church and spiritual center of the Salesian Congregation.
Memorial Day Build Up
Every day from now to
Memorial Day I ask your prayers for each service and all of our defenders to
include police and fire on Memorial Day.
The United States Public Health
Service Commissioned Corps (PHSCC), also referred to as the Commissioned Corps
of the United States Public Health Service, is the federal uniformed service of
the U.S. Public Health Service
(PHS), and is one of the eight uniformed services of the
United States. The commissioned corps' primary mission is to the
protection, promotion, and advancement of health and safety of the general
public. Along with the NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps,
the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps is one of two uniformed services
that consist only of commissioned officers and has no enlisted
or warrant officer ranks, although
warrant officers have been authorized for use within the service. Officers of
the commissioned corps are classified as noncombatants, unless directed to
serve as part of the military by the President or detailed to a service
branch of the military. Members of the commissioned corps wear the same
uniforms as the United States Navy, or the United States Coast Guard (when assigned
to the Coast Guard), with special PHS Commissioned Corps insignia, and hold
naval ranks equivalent to officers of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard.
Commissioned corps officers typically receive their commissions through the
commissioned corps’ direct commissioning program. As with its
parent division, the Public Health Service, the commissioned corps is under the
direction of the United States
Department of Health and Human Services. The commissioned corps is led by
the Surgeon General, who holds the
grade of vice admiral.[14]
The Surgeon General reports directly to the Department of
Health and Human Services, Assistant Secretary for Health; the
Assistant Secretary of Health may be appointed to the rank of admiral if he or she is also a serving
uniformed officer of the commissioned corps
Daily
Devotions
·
Today in honor of the Holy Trinity do the Divine Office giving
your day to God. To honor God REST: no shopping after SUNSET ON SATURDAY till
Monday. Don’t forget the internet.
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